What they said

On the war on terrorism

Schaffer: “These individuals have been attacking and attacking and attacking the United States going back to the fall of the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s. . . . It is just a different combination of anti-American, anti-freedom terrorists whose vision is a totalitarian religious dominance of the entire planet.”

Udall: “The threat of extremism is real. We have to be tough, and we have to be smart. And we have to use all of our weapons, including our military but also including our Bill of Rights and our economic system. . . . That’s how we are going to prevail, and we will prevail. I have no doubt.”

On health care

Schaffer: “As a goal, we ought to insist on universal access to health care for every single American. . . . We need to provide incentives directly — whether it’s through tax credits, whether it’s through tax-free accounts that you own and that you keep yourself and pass on to the next generations.”

Udall: “I’m not for a government-sponsored solution. I’m for enhancing and improving the system we have. . . . We have to expand the children’s health insurance program. . . . We can create insurance pools for small business, and we can put in place tax credits for those families who are struggling to meet those premiums, and we ought to make sure insurance companies can’t discriminate against us or family members who have pre-existing conditions.”

On Piñon Canyon

Schaffer: The Army “has not made the proper plan; it has not made the proper analysis. . . . I don’t support expansion of the Piñon Canyon area by the United States Army.”

Udall: “I’ve been opposed to the use of eminent domain to expand Piñon Canyon. The Army hasn’t made a justifiable case.”

On Washington

Schaffer: “I worked my way through college on a farm. We had an old phrase that went like this: If you want the water to clear up, you’ve got to get the hogs out of the stream.”

Udall: “Of the 11 previous elections, Congressman Schaffer has been on the ballot nine of those 11 elections. So to suggest that he’s a stranger to public office and to serving in the public square just doesn’t comport with the facts.” (Five of Schaffer’s nine tries have been for federal office.)

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